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Executive Summary
� Proposed upgrades to Charlie’s Circle Road would provide safe access to an underutilized portion
of the range that could later be used to enhance PTA’s training capability; and,
� A proposed main supply route would be built to connect the main range area with the KMA.
Utilities running through the range area and the Cantonment Area are currently meeting the installation’s
energy and utility requirements, but would be entirely stressed to meet the demand that new ranges and
proposed facilities in the Cantonment Area, if modernization of PTA is decided to occur. Utility upgrade
requirements are:
� Production Well;
� Electrical upgrade.
First Range Modernization Project: Construct and Operate the IPBA
The Army proposes to co-locate, within the IPBA, an IPBC, Live-fire Shoothouse, and a MOUT facility.
Co-locating these facilities would enable the infantry companies to maximize their limited training time
and resources through simultaneous training of its platoons during deployments to PTA.
An IPBC supports a variety of light infantry training events, day and night, such as reconnaissance and
security; movement to contact; attack; raid; ambush; defend and retrograde. An infantry platoon training
on the IPBC would move dismounted from objective to objective while engaging the targets with rifles
(5.56 mm ammunition) and machine guns. The infantry platoon would normally conduct several practice
runs without live ammunition prior to conducting a live-fire exercise.
The proposed Shoothouse would be a two-story building of approximately 4,700 sf with roof and
stairways. It is divided into rooms and hallways of different sizes which contain automated precision
human urban targets (HUT). All vertical surfaces would be covered with bullet absorbing wall panels.
The Shoothouse would be used to train and evaluate individual Soldiers and squads on their ability to
move tactically (enter and clear a room, enter and clear a building), engage targets, and conduct breaches,
and practice target discrimination in a live-fire environment. Soldiers would use pistols, rifles and light
machineguns, and shotguns. Units using the Live-fire Shoothouse may complete practice exercises
before conducting a live-fire exercise.
The MOUT site would be used to train small units such as patrolling, security operations, cordon and
search, attack and defend. Friendly and enemy targets may be emplaced temporarily in the MOUT site,
or the unit may conduct “force-on-force” exercises.
ALTERNATIVES
Because of its multi-tiered approach the Army reviews two levels of alternatives.
Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement ES-5
Modernization of PTA and Construction and Operation of an IPBA